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Northeast Caucasian | |
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East Caucasian Nakh-Daghestanian North Caspian Caspian | |
Geographic distribution | Caucasus |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
Proto-language | Proto-Northeast Caucasian |
Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | nakh1245 |
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The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as in Georgia and diaspora populations in Western Europe and the Middle East. According to Glottolog, there are currently 36 Nakh-Dagestanian languages.